The male - I have found - is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness and kindness, can be trained to do most things.

I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.

The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.

Never drink black coffee at lunch; it will keep you awake all afternoon.

Leo, sadly, has Parkinsons, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.

There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.

The only thing a whirlwind courtship does is blow dust in everyone's eyes.